PRIVACY POLICY

PRIVACY POLICY GDPR

This privacy policy sets out how this website by Bags of Ethics and the Green Tree Badge, uses and protects any information that you give Bags of Ethics while using this website. Bags of Ethics is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. Bags of Ethics may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

Who are we?

Bags of Ethics (serviced by Supreme Creations Ltd) are a global manufacturer or reusable and branded packaging, fabric items, and apparel. Our Head Office is in London and our factory is in Pondicherry, India.

What does this policy cover?

At Bags of Ethics we take your personal data seriously. This policy:
  • Sets Out the Types of Personal Data That We Collect About You;
  • Explains How and Why We Collect and Use Your Personal Data;
  • Explains How Long We Keep Your Personal Data For;
  • Explains When, Why and with Whom We Will Share Your Personal Data;
  • Sets Out the Legal Basis We Have for Using Your Personal Data;
  • Explains the Effect of Refusing to Provide the Personal Data Requested;
  • Explains the Different Rights and Choices You Have for Your Personal Data; and
  • Explains How We May Contact You and How You Can Contact Us.

What personal data do we collect about you?

We may collect personal data about you from the following sources:
  • Directly from You. This Is Information You Provide to Us Via Our Website, or During Consultations with Us.
  • From an Agent/third Party Acting on Your Behalf. E.g. from One of Your Colleagues, or Verified Suppliers E.g. If Your Business Is Participating in an Event Which Has Been Published Online.

Through publicly available sources. We use the following public sources:

  • Linkedin
  • Facebook and Its Subsidiary Companies
  • Google and Its Subsidiary Companies
  • Companies House and Its Equivalent Globally
  • Credit Check Agencies
  • Websites Displaying Public Events
  • Global Trademark Registers

How and why do we use your personal data?

We use your personal data for the following purposes:
  • To Contact You to Discuss the Services or Products You Receive from Us (And Any Changes to Them);
  • To Respond to Any Questions or Concerns You Have Raised;
  • To Deal with Administrative Matters Such as Invoicing, Deliveries and Reorders;
  • To Otherwise Carry Out Our Obligations Arising Under Our Contract with Your and to Enforce the Same.
We will not use your information for any other purposes unless we are required to do so by law.

How long do we keep your personal data?

How long we keep your information will depend on the purpose for which we use it.

We only keep your information for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice and to fulfil our legal obligations. We have internal rules that set out how long we retain information.

Who do we share your personal data with?

We share your personal information with third parties who perform functions on our behalf and who also provide services to us, such as professional advisors, IT consultants carrying out testing and development work on our business technology systems, research and mailing houses and function co-ordinators.

We share your personal information with our other Group companies for internal reasons, primarily for business and operational purposes. As we continue to develop our business, we may sell or purchase assets. If another entity acquires us or merges with us your personal information will be disclosed to such entity.

If any bankruptcy or reorganisation proceeding is brought by or against us, all such information will be considered an asset of ours and as such it is possible they will be sold or transferred to third parties

Where required we share your personal information with third parties to comply with a legal obligation; when we believe in good faith that an applicable law requires it; at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation; to detect and protect against fraud, or any technical or security vulnerabilities; to respond to an emergency; or otherwise to protect the rights, property, safety, or security of third parties, visitors to our website, our business or the public.

These third parties comply with similar and equally stringent undertakings of privacy and confidentiality.

No other third parties have access to your information unless we specifically say so in this Privacy Notice, or the law requires this.

What legal basis do we have for using your personal data?

We process your information

  • To Be Able to Provide You with Products And/or Services in Line with Our Terms & Conditions Via the Supreme Creations Website.
  • As This Is Necessary for the Performance of the Contract with You for Consulting Service or to Take Steps at Your Request Prior to Entering into This Contract.
  • As This Is Necessary in Pursuit of Our Legitimate Interests in Marketing Similar Products and Services to You.

Note: You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you which is based on legitimate interests. More information on this right and on how to exercise it is set out below.

What happens if you do not provide us with the information we request or ask that we stop processing your information?

If we have a commercial contract with you, our contractual obligations under that contract with you that require us to process your information.

Do we make automated decisions concerning you?

No, we do not carry out automated decision making or automated profiling.

Do we use Cookies to collect personal data on you?

To provide better service to you on our websites, we use cookies to collect your personal data when you browse.

What about marketing?

Bags of Ethics would like to contact you from time to time about our new similar products and promotional offers by email /telephone/post/ social media/ instant message via website/phone applications.

You can unsubscribe / opt out at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in any of our communication or by contacting us using the details at the end of this Privacy Notice.

Where do we store your personal data? Do we transfer your personal data outside the EEA?

All information you provide to us is securely stored on our web servers and other secure SaaS providers platforms.

Where possible, we try to only process your information within the UK and European Economic Area (EEA). If we or our service providers transfer personal data outside of the UK or EEA, we always require that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect the information when it is processed.

How do we keep your personal data secure?

We ensure the security of your personal data through use of encryption, firewalls, password protection and multi-factor authentication. We also take steps to ensure all our subsidiaries, agents, affiliates and suppliers employ adequate levels of security.

What rights do you have in relation to the personal data we hold on you?

By law, you have a number of rights when it comes to your personal data. Further information and advice about your rights can be obtained from the data protection regulator in your country.

Tree Portal/ Login area

The Green Tree Badge is administered by Royal Forestry Society and Bags of Ethics (Supreme Creations Ltd). Any activities conducted within the Tree Login/ Portal area will be monitored to assess the progress of your child/ school/ community group/ participant. This includes but is not restricted to checking and verifying all details of the participants e.g. name, school, parent/ guardian details, and the completion of specific activities which are logged in the portal. This information is simply processed to see the progress of activities being completed and to assess the participant to obtain The Green Tree Badge. The information about any individual progress will not be disclosed unless the participant wishes to make this public for awards ceremonies or certification purposes.

Rights

What does this mean?

The right to be informed

You have the right to be provided with clear, transparent and easily understandable information about how we use your information and your rights. This is why we’re providing you with the information in this Privacy Notice.

The right of access

You have the right to obtain access to your information (if we’re processing it), and certain other information (similar to that provided in this Privacy Notice).

This is so you’re aware and can check that we’re using your information in accordance with data protection law.

The right to rectification

You are entitled to have your information corrected if it’s inaccurate or incomplete.

The right to erasure

This is also known as ‘the right to be forgotten’ and, in simple terms, enables you to request the deletion or removal of your information where there’s no compelling reason for us to keep using it. This is not a general right to erasure; there are exceptions.

The right to restrict processing

You have rights to ‘block’ or suppress further use of your information. When processing is restricted, we can still store your information, but may not use it further. We keep lists of people who have asked for further use of their information to be ‘blocked’ to make sure the restriction is respected in future.

The right to data portability

You have rights to obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes across different services. For example, if you decide to switch to a new provider, this enables you to move, copy or transfer your information easily between our IT systems and theirs safely and securely, without affecting its usability.

The right to object to processing

You have the right to object to certain types of processing, including processing based on our legitimate interests and processing for direct marketing (i.e. if you no longer want to be contacted with potential opportunities).

The right to lodge a complaint

You have the right to lodge a complaint about the way we handle or process your personal data with your national data protection regulator.

The right to withdraw consent

If you have given your consent to anything we do with your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time (although if you do so, it does not mean that anything we have done with your personal data with your consent up to that point is unlawful). This includes your right to withdraw consent to us using your personal data for marketing purposes.

How can you make a request to exercise your rights?

To exercise any of the rights above, or to ask a question, contact us using the details set out at the end of this Privacy Notice.

How will we handle a request to exercise your rights?

We’ll respond as soon as we can. Generally, this will be within one month from when we receive your request but, if the request is going to take longer to deal with, we’ll come back to you and let you know.

We usually act on requests and provide information free of charge, but may charge a reasonable fee to cover our administrative costs of providing the information for:

  • Baseless or Excessive/repeated Requests, Or
  • Further Copies of the Same Information.

Alternatively, the law may allow us to refuse to act on the request.

How can you contact us

If you have questions on the processing of your personal data, would like to exercise any of your rights, or are unhappy with how we’ve handled your information, please contact us here:

Legal Team,
Bags of Ethics,
12 Iron Bridge Cl,
London NW10 0UF,
United Kingdom

If you’re not satisfied with our response to any complaint or believe our processing of your information does not comply with data protection law, you can make a complaint to the data protection regulator in your country.

Do we use Cookies to collect personal data on you?

To provide better service to you on our websites, we and our service providers use cookies to collect your personal data when you browse.

Specifically, the following Cookies are in use:

Google Analytics (3rd party). We use this to see how many visitors we are getting, and how they found us. You can find out more about Google Analytics’ Cookies here:

http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/#toc-analytics

Social Media Sharing and Integration (3rd party). We use Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter functionality within this site so that you can share items of interest, or become a fan of our Social Media Profiles. You can find out more about Facebook’s Cookie use here:

http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=115180708570932 , and Twitter’s here: https://twitter.com/privacy

We also sometimes use video embedding, like YouTube or Vimeo (3rd party) to enhance your experience of content on our site. You can find out about YouTube’s Cookie policy here:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy , and Vimeo’s here: http://vimeo.com/privacy

Our website is built on WordPress, and you can see how WordPress uses Cookies here 

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Sir Kenneth Olisa

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Born in Nottingham and educated in State schools and Cambridge University, Ken has worked at IBM and Wang after which he founded 2 technology merchant banks.

His business career has included serving as the first British-born black director of a FTSE-100 company (Reuters) and on the Boards of major companies including Open Text, ENRC, Huawei (UK) and Nigeria’s Interswitch.

His charitable passions include President of London homeless charity Thames Reach (for which he received an OBE), Chair of welfare to work charity Shaw Trust, founding Chair of the Aleto Foundation, supporting future leaders from tough reality backgrounds.

In 2015 Her Majesty the Queen appointed Ken as her Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London – the first British-born black Lord-Lieutenant in the role’s 500 year history and in 2018 he was knighted for services to business and philanthropy.

Alex Wilson

Education & Schools Advisor

An educator for 30 years, specialising in Religious Studies, Philosophy and History, latterly a Headmistress of both a girls school in London and a thriving co-ed school in East Yorkshire. My core aim is to give every child floors and not ceilings, to empower them with confidence built on a nurturing belief in them from the adults supporting them and celebrating their successes and talents so that they leave school as a rounded human being with a desire to make the most of their education, grounded in the Biblical teaching that ‘from those to whom much is given much is expected’.

The Hon Jeremy Soames

Chairman of the Churchill Fellowship

Jeremy Soames is the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill and has spent most of his career in investment management and banking, mainly with the N M Rothschild Group, where he was a director of operating companies in Europe, Asia and the USA. He is an experienced Chair and Non-executive Director with former roles including Chairman of the National Pension Fund for Nurses, Trustee of the Royal Opera House Trust and the Burdett Trust.

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Smruti Sriram

Chief Executive,
Bags of Ethics

Since she was 18, Smruti has been involved in education, mentoring, and skills training for young people, through the Wings of Hope children’s charity. Smruti says: “My work at Bags of Ethics is focused on the mission to make reusable living desirable, through great partnerships and design, whilst championing people and planet.” Some notable charity projects Smruti had led include The Great British Designer Project, with the British Fashion Council, and the merchandise project for the Queen’s Green Canopy. “I love camelia trees as my family planted eight of them as a gift when my son was born.”

Dr R. Sri Ram

Founder Bags of Ethics
and The Wings of Hope
Children’s Charity

Dr Sri Ram is the Founder and Chairman of Supreme Creations/ Bags of Ethics. For over 25 years his company has reduced single use plastic bags in the billions of tonnes for many leading brands. Dr Sri says  80% of our workforce are women who have been empowered to be self-reliant and trained to the highest levels”. Sri believes young people can drive real positive change. The Wings of Hope Achievement Award has seen over 35,000 UK students gain life skills training and connect with other children around the world, supporting free education projects. Many years ago, His Majesty King Charles III gave Sri’s business an award, an oak sapling that Sri planted with pride in his garden

Becky Wilkinson

Learning and Outreach Manager,
The Royal Forestry Society

Becky is driven by making a difference in the lives of children and young people and is never happier than when out in a forest.

Becky says: “As soon as my children could talk, they loved dinosaurs. They were fascinated when I told them that the monkey puzzle tree that we see today is related to a tree that existed before the time of the dinosaurs. Years on, they still love to call out every time they see a monkey puzzle tree when we are out as a family.

Christopher Williams

Chief Executive,
The Royal Forestry Society

pine tree

Christopher has worked in the environment and education sectors for over 30 years. He is passionate about connecting young people with their environment, especially trees, and forestry, and creating a greener and more sustainable future for everyone. His favorite tree is the Scots pine. Christopher says: “They can be such an impressive tree in a forest setting or on their own, and they are some tall Scots pine trees near where I live, and I always look out at them after a long journey home.

Tony Kirkham MBE,
VMH, FICFor (Hon)

Former Head of the Arboretum,
Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

Tony has worked with trees all his life and was inspired by the horse chestnut tree, the source of conkers for the well-known game. His teacher bought a bunch of twigs to school, and told him why it is called horse chestnut, which is due to the horseshoe-shaped leaf scars on the twigs. Tony says, “It is one of the easiest trees to identify, but unfortunately is now under threat.” This experience led Tony to what he considers to be the best job in the world.

Curating the incredible tree collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he worked for 43 years before retiring in 2021.